Looking at Cartoons, Getting Along

Launched on Nov 29 2006, now 2,100+ posts...This bilingual blog - 'आन्याची फाटकी पासोडी' in Marathi- is largely a celebration of visual and/or comic ...तुकाराम: "ढेकणासी बाज गड,उतरचढ केवढी"...George Santayana: " Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence"...William Hazlitt: "Pictures are scattered like stray gifts through the world; and while they remain, earth has yet a little gilding."

मेघदूत: "नीचैर्गच्छत्युपरि च दशा चक्रनेमिक्रमेण"

समर्थ शिष्या अक्का : "स्वामीच्या कृपाप्रसादे हे सर्व नश्वर आहे असे समजले. पण या नश्वरात तमाशा बहुत आहे."

G C Lichtenberg: “It is as if our languages were confounded: when we want a thought, they bring us a word; when we ask for a word, they give us a dash; and when we expect a dash, there comes a piece of bawdy.”

C. P. Cavafy: "I’d rather look at things than speak about them."

Martin Amis: “Gogol is funny, Tolstoy in his merciless clarity is funny, and Dostoyevsky, funnily enough, is very funny indeed; moreover, the final generation of Russian literature, before it was destroyed by Lenin and Stalin, remained emphatically comic — Bunin, Bely, Bulgakov, Zamyatin. The novel is comic because life is comic (until the inevitable tragedy of the fifth act);...”

सदानंद रेगे: "... पण तुकारामाची गाथा ज्या धुंदीनं आजपर्यंत वाचली जात होती ती धुंदी माझ्याकडे नाहीय. ती मला येऊच शकत नाही याचं कारण स्वभावतःच मी नास्तिक आहे."

".. त्यामुळं आपण त्या दारिद्र्याच्या अनुभवापलीकडे जाऊच शकत नाही. तुम्ही जर अलीकडची सगळी पुस्तके पाहिलीत...तर त्यांच्यामध्ये त्याच्याखेरीज दुसरं काही नाहीच आहे. म्हणजे माणसांच्या नात्यानात्यांतील जी सूक्ष्मता आहे ती क्वचित चितारलेली तुम्हाला दिसेल. कारण हा जो अनुभव आहे... आपले जे अनुभव आहेत ते ढोबळ प्रकारचे आहेत....."

Kenneth Goldsmith: "In 1969 the conceptual artist Douglas Huebler wrote, “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.”1 I’ve come to embrace Huebler’s ideas, though it might be retooled as “The world is full of texts, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.” It seems an appropriate response to a new condition in writing today: faced with an unprecedented amount of available text, the problem is not needing to write more of it; instead, we must learn to negotiate the vast quantity that exists. How I make my way through this thicket of information—how I manage it, how I parse it, how I organize and distribute it—is what distinguishes my writing from yours."

Tom Wolfe: "The first line of the doctors’ Hippocratic oath is ‘First, do no harm.’ And I think for the writers it would be: ‘First, entertain.’"

विलास सारंग: "… इ. स. 1000 नंतर ज्या प्रकारची संस्कृती रुढ झाली , त्यामध्ये साधारणत्व व विश्वात्मकता हे गुण प्राय: लुप्त झाले...आपली संस्कृती अकाली विश्वात्मक साधारणतेला मुकली आहे."

Friday, May 30, 2025

Vincent van Gogh, Dinanath Dalal and Blatant Colours...व्हिन्सेंट व्हॅन घो, दीनानाथ दलाल आणि ठळक रंग

आज दीनानाथ दलाल (३०/५/१९१६- १५/१/१९७१) यांची १०९वी जयंती आहे ...

Julian Barnes, London Review of Books, July 30 2015:

"...No one did colour more blatantly and more unexpectedly than Van Gogh. Its blatancy gives his pictures their roaring charm. Colour, he seems to be saying: you haven’t seen colour before, look at this deep blue, this yellow, this black; watch me put them screechingly side by side. Colour for Van Gogh was a kind of noise. At the same time, it couldn’t have seemed more unexpected, coming from the dark, serious, socially concerned young Dutchman who for so many years of his early career had drawn and painted dark, serious, socially concerned images of peasants and proletarians, of weavers and potato-pickers, of sowers and hoers. This emergence, this explosion from darkness, has no parallel except for that of Odilon Redon..."

कै दलाल यांच्या कुटुंबाच्या सौजन्याने

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Young Woman at a Window- Salvador Dali and Alex Raymond

artist: Alex Raymond (1909- 1956)

'Young Woman at a Window', 1925, artist: Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Saturday, May 24, 2025

गतिमानी अविष्कार ...Running along the Beach by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

द ग गोडसे यांच्या 'गतिमानी', १९७६ पुस्तकाचे मलपृष्ठ

Running along the Beach by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923), 1908

समुद्राच्या लाटा , धावणारी मुले ... सगळे कसे गतिमानी

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

जादुगार चंदु, भारतात चंदु नाव त्यामुळे लोकप्रिय झाले का?...Chandu the Magician and Doctor Strange

I did not know the existence of Chandu the Magician.

It is an American supernatural radio drama which originally aired from 1931 to 1936. A revival on a different network took place 12 years later, airing from 1948 to 1950.

Gayne Whitman played the lead role of American-born Frank Chandler (Chandu), who had learned occult secrets from a yogi in India. Known as Chandu, he possessed several supernatural skills, including astral projection, teleportation and the ability to create illusions. Chandu's goal was to "go forth with his youth and strength to conquer the evil that threatens mankind"

Facebook page 'Comic Book Historians' says on September 7 2024 : "As Stan Lee himself admitted, Doctor Strange was Steve Ditko's idea. A few issues after his 1963 premiere, Doctor Strange's origin by both Lee and Ditko, was published. Lee claims the origin was influenced by Chandu the Magician, a radio serial that became a film in 1932. In this film, Westerner Frank Chandler travels to India to train under an ancient yogi and becomes the sorcerer Chandu. He combats the evil mastermind Roxor, portrayed by Bela Lugosi. Chandu’s powers of astral projection, mentalism, and teleportation through hand gestures are especially fun to watch."